Texas Pecan Pest Management Newsletter, Volume 95, Number 4, June 1995 (open access)

Texas Pecan Pest Management Newsletter, Volume 95, Number 4, June 1995

Newsletter focusing on pecan disease and pest control in Texas, including prevention, identification, treatment, and educational opportunities.
Date: June 25, 1995
Creator: Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Parks & Wildlife News, June 25, 1980 (open access)

Texas Parks & Wildlife News, June 25, 1980

Weekly newsletter discussing natural resources, parks, hunting and fishing, and other information related to the outdoors in Texas.
Date: June 25, 1980
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Estimate of Potential Fuel Reprocessing Revision #28 - Part A (open access)

Estimate of Potential Fuel Reprocessing Revision #28 - Part A

The power and estimated reprocessing load are tabulated for existing and proposed United States and United States-built reactors of 10 Kw or greater thermal power.
Date: June 25, 1959
Creator: Ullmann, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Status Report on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes (open access)

Status Report on the Disposal of Radioactive Wastes

The new and as yet unsolved problems introduced by the production of large quantities of fission products and radioactive isotopes from fission or neutron capture present mankind a most complex technical, economic, and political problem. On one hand, the possibility of using the fission process to produce energy from an unexploited and abundant natural source is emerging from large programs of research and development. We are also beginning to see the promise of use of particulate and electromagnetic radiation for the good of man. On the other hand, we are presented with the problem of controlling the dangerous products of fission for periods of time measured in terms of many hundreds of years, periods longer than the effective tenure of any political state in history. We must not only devise ways of protecting ourselves in the present and for our lifetime but, in addition, we must establish the basic technical, social, and administrative control of vast quantities of artificial radioactivity that must remain effective for at least ten to twenty lifetimes.
Date: June 25, 1957
Creator: Culler, Floyd L., Jr. & McLain, Stuart
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chemistry of Vanadium: A Summary of the Non-Project Literature Through November, 1952 (open access)

The Chemistry of Vanadium: A Summary of the Non-Project Literature Through November, 1952

The non-project literature concerning the chemistry of vanadium has been summarized through November, 1952. The report is presented in terms of izo- and heteropoly vanadates and cationic forms of pentavalent vanadium, complexes of di-, tri-, and pentavalent vanadium, and oxidation potentials of various vanadium systems. A bibliography of 93 references is included.
Date: June 25, 1954
Creator: Frank, Andrew J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report of Invention The Preparation of Uranium Dioxide by Fused Salt Electrolysis (open access)

Report of Invention The Preparation of Uranium Dioxide by Fused Salt Electrolysis

This is a report of what may be an invention in the preparation of uranium dioxide of a quality particularly useful for the fabrications of fuel elements for nutronic reactors.
Date: June 25, 1959
Creator: Lyon, W. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memorandum (open access)

Memorandum

We have recently completed measurement of resonance escape probability in the BNL reactor and in several slightly-enriched uranium light water moderated lattices. In addition, WAPD has made available to us data from other slightly enriched uranium-water lattices, so that about 18 lattices in all have been done.
Date: June 25, 1956
Creator: Sher, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Color Production From Energetic Ions Impinging On Metals (open access)

Color Production From Energetic Ions Impinging On Metals

It has been observed that energetic gaseous ions mark their region of impingement on certain metals in color. Under identical conditions of bombardment, multicharged ions of the same gas mark their impact areas with different colors. The colors are sensitive to the type and energy of the ion as well as to the metal bombarded. These colors may result from reflections from thin films formed by reactions at the target. Because the colors indicate that thicker films are produced with increased ion energy, ion penetration depth as predicted by theory is compared with the depth indicated by the colors observed.
Date: June 25, 1962
Creator: Ehlers, Kenneth W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Reactivity Value of Highly Burned Plutonium in Thermal Reactors (open access)

The Reactivity Value of Highly Burned Plutonium in Thermal Reactors

It has been suggested by many workers in the power reactor field that a more efficient utilization of natural uranium may be obtained in thermal reactors if the Pu produced in a fuel cycle were used to enrich a subsequent cycle in which the irradiation-depleted-uranium would be reirradiated. The work described here was done for the purpose of evaluating the reactivity value of the Pu enrichment under the assumption that all plutonium produced is, after chemical separation, fabricated into separate fuel elements and not alloyed with recycled uranium. It has been suggested that the reactivity value of the Pu decreases with exposure to such an extent that highly burned plutonium should be discarded. We, therefore, wish to look at two of the variables affecting the limiting exposure: the reactivity value of the fuel as a function of exposure and temperature and the fraction of potential fissions which would be discarded as a function of exposure. Though the residence time of the Pu fuel before reprocessing, refabrication, and recycling depends upon the relative decrease in specific power, decrease in reactivity due to fission product build-up, the lifetime of the fuel elements before failure, and the cost of reprocessing, only the first …
Date: June 25, 1956
Creator: Heineman, R. E. & Lefevre, H. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Transportation Plan 2050 (open access)

Texas Transportation Plan 2050

The TTP 2050 describes future planning and programming trends and issues, evaluates long-term investment priorities, identifies planned rural investments, presents implementation strategies, and consider s the performance implications of different investment strategies under potential future scenarios.
Date: June 25, 2020
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 26, Pages 3771-3974, June 25, 2021 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 26, Pages 3771-3974, June 25, 2021

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: June 25, 2021
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Deposition of Corrosion Products by Cataphoresis (open access)

Deposition of Corrosion Products by Cataphoresis

This report is a record of experimentation conducted intermittently over a period of two years and directed toward preventing deposition of transport corrosion products on fuel elements and other critical components in high-temperature, circulating water nuclear reactor. It includes the postulated mechanism for deposition, a description of experimental equipment, experimental data, results obtained from the experiments, and recommendations for future study.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: Fagan, Walter
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Liquid-Fuel-Measuring Tank (open access)

Liquid-Fuel-Measuring Tank

Patent for a liquid fuel measuring tank that accurately measures fuel and can automatically stop accumulating fuel when a certain amount has been reached, including illustrations.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Helm, Virgil L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Well-Shooting Torpedo. (open access)

Well-Shooting Torpedo.

Patent for "torpedoes of the type used in "shooting" wells, the object being to provide a torpedo which will be especially useful in the removal of casings from wells" (lines 9-13), such as easier removal from dry wells. Also, modifications to the hammer are noted to ensure explosion.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Franklin, Henry L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor-Plow. (open access)

Motor-Plow.

Patent for motor-plows with a spring-actuated motor driving device. The motor-plow can be rewound for use by the hand of the operators without leaving the driver's seat. The motor-plows have a plurality of moldboards and provide an inexpensive motor eliminating the use of draft-animals.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Kucharski, Konstanty
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thimble. (open access)

Thimble.

Patent for an improved thimble that incorporates a thread-cutter tool.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Colburn, Sophia
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Signaling Device for Automobiles. (open access)

Signaling Device for Automobiles.

Patent for turn signal device for automobiles that "can be easily and quickly attached to the frame of the usual wind shield" (lines 21-22) and allows driver to operate it without letting go of the steering wheel.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Niissle, Charles J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plane Attachment. (open access)

Plane Attachment.

Patent for an attachment to be affixed to a hand plane to guard the hand from splinters while in use.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Langford, Joseph O.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oil-Tank Protector. (open access)

Oil-Tank Protector.

Patent for an invention to protect oil tanks against destruction from lightning by carrying escaped gas away from the oil tank's exterior, illustration included.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Cohen, Wolf
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Demountable Rim. (open access)

Demountable Rim.

Patent for demountable rims for motor vehicles which are constructed of two sections that latch together, resulting in easier application and/or removal of a tire from the rim.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Dugger, Huston R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cut-Out Device for Windmills. (open access)

Cut-Out Device for Windmills.

Patent for "an improved attachment for wind mills, whereby the mill may be thrown out of gear automatically when the supply tank becomes filled" (lines 9-13). It includes an illustration and description of the components.
Date: June 25, 1918
Creator: Pennington, Phil M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Proposed R.F. Buncher for A-12 (open access)

Proposed R.F. Buncher for A-12

A buncher and pre-accelerator for A-12 is described that has 360 degree acceptance and could handle a current of one ampere from a low voltage source.
Date: June 25, 1952
Creator: Colgate, S. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Isotope Shift of the Uranium Ka1 X Ray (open access)

The Isotope Shift of the Uranium Ka1 X Ray

Technical report. From Introduction : "The nuclear volume dependent isotope shift of optical spectral lines has long been a very useful means for studying the changes in the nuclear size or shape for different isotopes of heavy elements."
Date: June 25, 1964
Creator: Brockmeier, R.; Boehm, F. & Hatch, E. N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Static Corrosion Tests of Fabrication Material for D-12 Waste Evaporator (open access)

Static Corrosion Tests of Fabrication Material for D-12 Waste Evaporator

Three types of stainless steel (309 SCB, Carpenter 20, 304-L) were exposed to both the liquid and vapor phase of each of three types of solutions. The time of exposure totaled ten days during which the specimens were cleaned and weighed periodically. The three synthetic D-12 waste solutions contained respectively chrome-high chloride, chrome-low chloride and high chloride sans chromium. The solutions were renewed at each weighing.
Date: June 25, 1953
Creator: Barnes, R. G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library